I recenty installed Windows Vista without tampering with the utility/recovery partition.
However, when I start my computer it doesn't show the Dell text at the top where you can press ctrl + F11 to start recovery. Instead, it just boots right into Vista.
Vista does not use F11 + Cntl. You have upgraded to Vista and now the XP partition is useless. You cannot go back to XP without a reformat and reinstall from disk. If you want to reinstall Vista, boot to the Vista dvd.
And as Mary explained to you, you CANNOT have it "the way it was before". You have installed Vista and doing this "breaks" the "factory restore" function. You have two options at this point:
Mary G
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Posted April 18th, 2008 14:00